Monday, February 23, 2015

I don't usually offer my Finnish teaching services to strangers on the street, but every time I hear someone saying normaalisesti, I wish I could do something to let them know that it should actually be normaalisti.

It is understandable that it's so easy to say normaalisesti, because many adjectives end with nen:

Thursday, February 5, 2015

There are so many ways to decribe how you feel in Finnish. I already have a post about the verbs tuntea and tuntua, but here are some sentences that came to my mind, organized according to the structure.

Minusta tuntuusiltä, että pian tapahtuu jotain kamalaa. - I feel like (it) that something horrible is going to happen soon. (This one seems to be the most difficult one. Notice that the person who feels is in the elative case. You can also leave the person out.)

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I'm really excited about a Finnish course that I'm teaching for nurses right now. Since I'm not a nurse, I'd like to visit a nursing home or a hospital and observe the language in real situations. This is what I said when I called to a local nursing home earlier today: